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Chapter 8: First Day of Work
Avery POV.
I looked around the room and saw the hosts sitting lazily at various tables and couches. I confidently placed my hands on my electric guitar and turned around signaling to every one to be ready.
"One, Two, Three, Four! !" Lacey yelled and I began with my awesome guitar solo.
(Bold = Avery, Normal = Alex, Italics = All four, Bold & Italics = Avery & Alex) (Baby You Don't Wanna Know by Sum 41)
I don't know what you want and I don't wanna know
I got you where I want and I won't let go
So get your kicks out quick while you still got time
That's fine
I know just what you've done, I need no alibis
I hope you've had your fun, you sure know how to live
Cause your just a drag and you just ran out of time
Well that's quite alright, well
Well do what you want, but don't be proud
Cause baby you don't wanna know
What I'm gonna do when you're not around
No baby you don't wanna know
I got you right where I want
And I bet you gonna set you off
And I tell you anything you want
But baby you don't wanna know
Baby you don't wanna know, Hey!
It beats me black and blue but I can't resist
I'm dragging myself through this kind of masochist
But I'll be fine like this till the end of time
That's quite alright
Well do what you want, but don't be proud
Cause baby you don't wanna know
What I'm gonna do when you're not around
No baby you don't wanna know
I got you right where I want
And I bet you gonna set you off
And I tell you anything you want
But baby you don't wanna know
Baby you don't wanna know
Baby you don't wanna know
Baby you don't wanna know
It's alright
I don't mind
Cause you just might be outta time
Well do what you want, but don't be proud
Cause baby you don't wanna know
What I'm gonna do when you're not around
No baby you don't wanna know
I got you right where I want
And I bet you gonna set you off
And I tell you anything you want
But baby you don't wanna know
Baby you don't wanna know
Baby you don't wanna know
Baby you don't wanna know
Baby you don't wanna know
Baby you don't wanna know
No no baby you don't wanna know!
I grinned and turned around to the girls who were grinning back at me.
"Nice girls, that was really good. We got the bridges correct too. I don't think we need to work on this too much anymore."
"Hey, I didn't mind," Said Lacey, standing up from behind her drum kit and stuffing her drum sticks into her back pant pocket. "I like the drum part."
"I just like the lyrics." I said, and that was probably because I was the one who wrote the song.
"So what exactly were you doing that you didn't want Grady to know about huh?" Rosalie asked and waggled her eyebrows suggestively, placing her bass on it's stand.
"How are you so sure it wasn't Grady I was talking too?" I shot back a little childishly.
"Fine," Alex joined our conversation, "What were you doing that you didn't want Jonathan to know about?"
"If I didn't tell him, then I am definitely not telling you."
"Awwwww," Lacey whined, "Whyyyyy?"
"Because." I said firmly. I sighed sadly, "I still can't believe we won't be there with him on his birthday." I sat down at the edge of the stage and looked at the floor pathetically.
"Who's Jonathan?" I heard the voice of a certain blonde idiot say softly. I looked up with a slightly depressed look.
"My brother, we're super tight. Like this," I said and held up my crossed index and middle finger.
"And you won't be able to see him on his birthday? That's horrible," Tamaki asked again. It was then that I suddenly felt a wave of homesickness wash over me as I realized that Tamaki was exactly like Jay. Without thinking I stood up and gave him a big, tight hug, like I always would with Jay. I felt his long arms wrap around me and I said, "You sound just like Jay. I miss him too."
"Who's Jay?" I heard two annoying voices chorus. I let go of Tamaki, pissed, and looked at the Hitachiin twins.
"Jay is my best guy friend you two twits." I said.
"So he's your boyfriend?" They yelled gleefully. "Avery's got a boyfriend! Avery's got a boyfriend!" They sang.
I whacked them both in the head, hard. "Owwww..." They whined and rubbed their heads.
"Jay is gay." I said getting really pissed off. I love Jay like a brother, and Jonathan basically already considers Jay part of our family, which means nobody insults Jay.
"OHHH," They said,
"You shouldn't be friends with a gay." One said smirking at me, and that's when I lost it.
"THAT'S IT!" I shrieked uber pissed and angry now. "NO ONE, AN' I SAY, NOBODY ON THIS EARTH, GOIN' BE HATIN' ON JAY!" I screamed madly in english. I was just about to lean forward and punch them in their annoying and smug faces, when the twins ran off in the opposite direction. And that's when I took off after them.
Alex POV.
"Aww shit." I said lamely as heard Avery shriek in english. "They're screwed. When she starts screaming in another language you have no chance." I said to the so called 'Kyouya'. He raised an eyebrow and pulled out that little black book of his, writing in it. I raised an eyebrow at him.
"How long?" I heard Rosalie say as we all watched Avery chase the twins around the room.
"2 minutes," I answered.
"Wasn't talking about that," She answered back. I wondered, confused about what she could be talking about when I saw the twins be scooped up into a giant black net hidden on the floor.
"You didn't..." I said turning to the sisters.
"We did!" They said cheerfully, raising their right hands like they were swearing an oath.
"LACE! ROSE!" Avery screamed at them. "GET THEM DOWN RIGHT NOW SO THAT I CAN TEAR THEM FROM LIMB TO LIMB!"
"Sorry," Lacey said, not at all apologetic.
"We can't do that." Rose finished.
"We wouldn't want you hurting our little friends would we?" They said not at all innocent looking.
"GET. THEM. DOWN. NOW." Avery hissed to the two girls and they shrunk away from her.
"Fine, fine," They whined, "Just stop with the look!" Lacey pulled out a little remote and pointed at the net hanging in the middle of the room. Slowly the net began to lower to the floor but then, when it was maybe 6 feet off the ground it stopped. Then, grinning evilly, the two girls pressed a button on the remote together and the net plummeted to the ground.
As the two girls stood laughing their asses off, one of the twins sat holding his arm. As soon as the other twin noticed he crawled over to his brother asking him what was wrong.
"Kaoru! Kaoru! What's wrong!" The one I guessed was Hikaru asked frantically.
"Nothing Hikaru," Kaoru winced holding his arm, "But I think I landed wrong on my arm,"
"You!" Hikaru yelled turning to the girls, and not at all liking the way he was looking at the girls I walked over to them protectively.
"Hikaru!" Kaoru put his good hand on his brothers arm, "Don't get angry, I'm fine."
"But I'm not!" Hikaru wailed, "It hurts me to see you hurt in any way!" He put his forehead on his brother's shoulder.
Kaoru gently put a finger under his brother's chin and made him look up, leaning in WAY too close for anyones comfort. Not liking where that was going, I put my hands over the sister's eyes, though they ripped them off and glared at me in annoyance.
"Considering we aren't customers at the moment I really don't understand why you have to do that in our presence." Interrupted Avery, putting a hand near her face to cover her line of sight and looking away from the twins.
"Yeah, gross much?" I stated,
"Gross?" The twins said, standing up and brushing themselves off. "Girls usually love that stuff."
"Oh my god, are rich girls that stupid?" I asked exasperated.
"But it's wonderful brotherly love!" The twins argued again, not looking at all injured.
"No, it's sick and wrong." Lacey and Rosalie said.
"You know, doing that you might at well be gay." Avery said pushing her glasses higher up her nose. "And you said not to be friends with a gay."
"This is different!" The twins said.
"No, it's worse. It's sick and wrong." Avery shook her head. "And disturbing. So don't do it when it isn't necessary."
"You can't stop us from doing it if we want too." The twins said smugly.
"Are you sure?" Avery asked, stepping forward menacingly. "I've spent most of my time training with full grown adults in sniper school to continue family tradition, and under my father's orders I spent 6 days overseeing soldiers who were training to join the US Rangers."
"Excuse me," Kyouya said putting a restraining hand on Avery's shoulder, "But could you please refrain from injuring the twins as annoying as they can be. It would cut our income greatly."
Angrily shrugging Kyouya's hand off her shoulder and turned to him. "Fine." She said in a restrained voice.
Huh... I thought, curious. Avery usually took a lot more arguing to get that point. Must be some important dude to her. Business as always.
"Good. Now just stand behind us so we can open. And be kind to the customers or I will raise your debt by 30 percent."
"Whatever." Avery sighed and waved us over.
After a little bit of fuss, us girls stood at various places by the boys. Not long afterwards the doors of the host club doors opened to a hoard of customers with blinding lights and rose petals (Where did that all come from?) and we all chorused:
"Welcome!"
Third Person POV.
The boys stood up and the girls broke off into groups, following each host. Alex followed Honey to his table, while the sisters and Avery followed the twins and Tamaki.
As the girls chatted with Honey and in a few instances, Mori, Alex kept a watchful eye on the little boy. After Honey's eleventh slice of cake, she finally asked Mori if the little boy's eating habits were human.
"Considering that he's eaten eleven slices of cake, I guess he does this a lot?" She asked in wonder, turing to Mori. Without taking his eyes off Honey, Mori nodded silently and Alex diverted her eyes back to Honey, curiously watching his interactions with the girls.
After a little while she observed the girls looking suspiciously at her and giving her weak glares. Mentally rolling her eyes, she looked at each one of the girls firmly.
"If you want to say something, please do. I don't appreciate being glared at constantly." Some girls flinched a little bit. "So if you have a problem with me, tell me now."
One girl, spoke up, trying to look tough though she looked terrified. "You seemed like a nice girl today in class, but how do we know you haven't joined the host club just so you steal our hosts from us?"
Alex sweatdropped mentally. They're just so dumb... And... Well, dumb... She thought.
"Avery's family does business with Kyouya over there," Alex lied smoothly wondering if it could possible be true. "They needed help and we gave help. This is purely business." Which it really is you little nitwits so if you try to cross me you will die. Alex thought ominously in her head, keeping a fake smile on her face.
"Well, if you say so," Said another girl, still suspicious. Sighing, Alex's eyes slowly drifted towards the scenery outside the multiple floor-to-ceiling windows. She scanned the multiple gardens she saw and busied herself trying to remember the complicated maze in the courtyard. The sound of little voice brought back Alex from her maze-remembering daydreams.
"So what do you like to do in your spare time?" Honey asked with his mouth (and some of his face) full of cake.
Alex laughed, amused, "Sweetie, you're getting cake all over your face," And she stole a handkerchief from Mori's pocket, using it to clean the Honey's cake-frosting smeared face. The girls that were watching were whispering and pointing excitedly at the pair. "That's what you get for scarfing down all those slices of cake. You've got to slow down,"
"Oh, okay Alex-chan, but can I have another slice of cake?" Alex frowned, and the girls began wave their hands erratically. "Pleasee?" He pleaded,
"If," Alex paused, "You eat slowly." She finished her sentence and gave Honey a stern look when the girls began to scream and sway erratically screaming,
"MOTHERLY LOVEE! MOEEEEE!"
Smiling at this, Honey decided to crawl onto Alex's lap for the rest of club hours, earning constant screams and murmurs of 'Motherly Love'.
With Avery
"Wow Avery," A girl with short black hair said to Avery who was not paying any real attention at all. "I can't believe you got a job here at the host club!"
"Yeah Avery, I'm so jealous!" Another girl with long straight black hair said.
"Oh, no need to worry girls, this is purely business!" Avery waved her hand, giving a huge (pretty much fake) smile. "I would never do that the you guys, you were so nice to me in class yesterday."
"Aww, thanks Avery!" Some of the girls said smiling at Avery.
"But do you like Tamaki? I mean, well, everyone loves Tamaki!" Another girl cooed.
"Oh, no! I could never think of Tamaki that way," Avery scoffed. "I love Tamaki, but not in that way. He reminds me too much of Jay."
"Who's Jay?" Asked the girl with the short black hair.
"Yes, tell us more about him," Said Tamaki, finally breaking away from his current female customer.
"Well girls," Began Avery, pushing her glasses a little higher on her nose. "Jay is my best guy friend. I love him like a bother."
"Aww," The girls gave shy smiles,
"And I really miss Jay right now, even thought we've only been away for a little while." Avery gave a sad smile, "And I miss him giving comments on my outfit everyday, you see, Jay is gay."
"Really? Wow!" The girls said again. "So exotic!"
"Yeah..." Avery pushed her glasses up her nose again to cause a glare.
"Will you play for us today?" Asked the nice girl with the short hair.
"Hopefully," Avery said with a smile. (Fake of course. It wasn't that she didn't like the girl, it was just that she wasn't really in the mood for being nice, so naturally, she faked it.) "But I don't know, it's our first day on the job so I doubt it."
"That's too bad then." replied the girl who then took a bite of cake, "Mm! This is delicious! You should try some Avery-san!"
"No thank you, but I'll go get more. It's part of the job anyways." With that Avery stood up and made her way to the carts, passing the twins and sisters in the process.
With the Sisters.
"OOOHHH! MOEE! BROTHERLY LOVE!" Squealed the girls while the twins did their twincest act and the sisters tried desperately to no look at them.
"Why..." Lacey muttered to her sister.
"Why does it have to be that?" Rosalie finished.
"I don't get it, why can't we just be on the stage by ourselves?" Lacey complained softly to her sister.
"Yeah, I like it better that way."
"So I heard that the Host Club has a band now?" Said a girl who finally tore her 'loving and adoring and drooling' gaze from the twins.
"Yeah, it does." The sisters chorused together, nearly matching the twin's twin-ness.
"So tell us about yourselves then. We want to know more about the girls that are going to be hanging out with our Hikaru and Kaoru." The girl had brown hair that reached her shoulders.
"Wellll..." Lacey pretended to think about it.
"Okay," Finished Rosalie, "So what do you want to know?"
"How about your past and your friendship? I mean I heard that you adopted Lacey?"
Lacey and Rosalie both winced as the memories began to flood back.
Flashback:
"You're such a freak! I mean what's with your accent?" A small girl with pigtails jeered at a young Australian girl.
"You're parents are freaks too!" The small girl continued to pick on the Australian. Suddenly she put on a wicked smile and put a tiny hand to her mouth. "Oops," She said, not sounding at all sorry, "I forgot, I meant were," The Australian girl sat there trying to fight back tears as other students walked past the orphan girl in the school hall.
"Back off." Said a green eyed girl and a girl with auburn hair. The girl with the green eyes pushed her glasses back up her nose, and cracked her knuckles.
"You think we're scared of you, you little rich girls?" Said one of the two accomplices of the female bully.
"You should be Loreen. I've trained with real soldiers." The girl with the glasses stepped forward menacingly.
"Yeah? And that just makes you more of a freak." The second accomplice snickered. The girl with the glasses stuck her hand out and put it against Loreen's chest. Then, swiftly and effectively she pushed the girl backwards a few feet and onto her butt. As the girl tried to stand up again the one with the green eyes pushed her back down with a foot.
"Get away from us."
"Nice job little girl." Said a male voice, accompanied by a pair of footsteps. "Now you've gotten me mad. No one, pushes my little sister around." The three bullied girls looked up to find that Malcolm Leboway, an upperclassman two years older than them and in 8th grade was grinning evilly at them. Malcolm's little sister and her little henchmen ran behind him as he walked forward slowly, causing the two 6th graders and 7th grader to huddle in a tiny group. The girls closed their eyes as they saw Malcolm's fist raise backwards, and they hugged each other in fright, waiting for the hit. But it never came. The girls opened their eyes to see a girl with black hair standing in front of them holding Malcolm's outstretched fist with her hand, only inches from her face.
"You know, to even think of hitting girls younger than you, you have to have the brain the size of a pea," The dark haired girl said darkly. "But I guess I forgot Malcolm. You don't have a brain." With that the girl threw Malcolm's fist back and glared at him.
"So Alex, you've decided to stand up for the little brats huh?" Malcolm sneered at 'Alex'.
"We were once little brats too, two years ago."
"And now we're not."
"Beat it." Alex hissed at the older boy and then turned her glare to his sister who was still hiding behind him. "And bring your little brat with you."
With that Malcolm huffed loudly and walked past Alex making their shoulders bump painfully. As he walked past a certain frightened Australian girl, his foot lashed out and made contact with her stomach, sending the girl back a foot as she doubled over. Malcolm grinned and began to walk away from the gasping 6th grader when suddenly he saw something barreling towards him.
Malcolm had pushed -no, strapped to a rocket and launched- Alex over the edge when she saw him kick her little girl. With a loud yell, Alex bowled into Malcolm sending him to the floor. And as soon as Malcolm had looked up in surprise, Alex's fist connected with his face, sending a painful thud that could be felt through the floor. As she punched Malcolm in the face again, Alex hissed through her teeth;
"If you ever, and I say ever, so much as breathe on my friends again, especially little Lacey, I will come to you. And after I'm done, you will have no arms, legs or testicles on your body anymore." And with that Alex gave final punch and stood up off Malcolm. She dusted herself off and glared at Malcolm as he crawled in the other direction. The Australian girl let go of the arm of the auburn haired girl and walked to her savior, staring at her in amazement and shock.
"Alex? Is it really you?" Lacey asked, shocked and Alex turned to Lacey with a kind smile on her face.
"It's really me Lace, I mean, you don't think that just because I was adopted and you weren't I was going to leave you by yourself?" Alex laughed at the amazed expression on Lacey's face. She turned to the girl with the glasses.
"Nice job standing up to your classmate there," Alex said, "What's your name 7th grader?"
"Avery." Avery said adjusting her glasses again. "And thanks."
"And nice job to you too for just standing up to that bitch." Alex turned to the auburn haired girl who had now linked arms with her knew australian friend, and she blushed.
"Thanks, I'm Rosalie by the way." Rosalie said with a smile.
"Cool... So you want to have lunch? I'm not letting you guys out of my sight until Malcolm lets off." The three girls smiled and nodded at their new friend so they made their way to the cafeteria.
END FLASHBACK
"Yeah, and that's how we met. Because everyone was bullying Lacey for some reason." Rosalie said while the other girls sat there wiping tears from their eyes with silk handkerchiefs.
"Yeah, and it didn't stop there. I was bullied in my orphanage too when Alex had left." Lacey then smiled. "And then Rosalie's family decided that they would adopt me, so my life really took a turn for the better there."
"AWWWW!" Cried the girls as they sobbed into their handkerchiefs. "SOO SWEET!"
Lacey and Rosalie sweatdropped and stared dumbly at the excited females. "Damn." They said to each other.
"What else? What else?" The girls cried again, begging us to tell them more stories about our friendship.
"Uhh..." Lacey said putting a hand to her chin.
"I uh... Guess, um, when Lacey broke her arm I carried all her stuff for her for four months." Rosalie said tentatively. "It wasn't like I minded."
"Oh yeah," Lacey said remembering when she'd broken her arm while training for boxing. "You wouldn't let me do anything for those four months."
"I was taking care of you! I'm not going to let you do anything that would stop you getting better."
"I know Rose," Lacey said as she wrapped her arms around her sister and she quickly returned the hug.
"OH MY GOSH! SISTERLY LOVVEEE! LOVVVEE!" Rosalie heard loud screaming.
"Eh?" Lacey cocked her head to the side when she broke away from her sister. They looked at each other, confused, and then they shrugged and stood up.
"Where are you two going?" Asked Kaoru.
"Getting on stage. I miss my bass." Rosalie said honestly.
"I miss my drums too..." Lacey said solemnly as she pulled her sister towards the stage. When the two of them had reached the stage though, they realized that they weren't the first to want to go back to their instruments. Yet, as Lacey was about to step on the stage, from Rosalie's bag, they heard the ringtone that they had been dreading ever since they'd arrived in Japan.
DUN DUN DUN DAAAAA!
IS IT EVIL? WHO KNOWS! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah. So I'm sorry that I haven't updated in so long, but school is being very mean to me right now. Hopefully I'll make it up to you though!
R&R!